Release

UK Environmental Accounts: 2019

Release date: 5 June 2019 9:30am

Summary

Measuring the contribution of the environment to the economy, the impact of economic activity on the environment, and society’s response to environmental issues. Satellite accounts to the main UK National Accounts.

Publications

  • UK Environmental Accounts: 2019

    Measuring the contribution of the environment to the economy, the impact of economic activity on the environment, and society's response to environmental issues. Satellite accounts to the main UK National Accounts.

Data

  • Energy use: bridging table

    The relationship between the UK Environmental Accounts and the Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), 1990 to 2022.

  • Atmospheric emissions: heavy metal pollutants by industry

    The emissions of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, vanadium and zinc in the UK, by industry (SIC 2007 group - around 130 categories), UK, 1990 to 2022.

  • Atmospheric emissions: acid rain precursors by industry and gas

    The emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, ammonia, and total acid rain precursors, by industry (SIC 2007 group – around 130 categories), UK, 1990 to 2022 and provisional 2023.

  • Atmospheric emissions: bridging tables

    The relationships between UK Environmental Accounts measures and those of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1990 to 2022.

  • Atmospheric emissions: road transport

    The emissions generated from fuel sources used by road transport vehicles in the UK, 1990 to 2022.

  • Environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) estimates

    First estimates of the UK environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) for 2021 and revised estimates for 2010 to 2020. Included are estimates of output, gross value added, employment and exports.

  • Energy use: renewable and waste sources

    The UK's energy use from renewable and waste sources, by source (for example, hydroelectric power, wind, wave, solar, and so on) and industry (SIC 2007 section - 21 categories), 1990 to 2022.

  • Environmental Protection Expenditure Survey estimates: by industry and activity

    Estimates for the UK's environmental protection expenditure by industry and activity, 2015 to 2022.

  • Energy use: fossil fuels by fuel type and industry

    The UK's fuel use by industry (SIC 2007 group - around 130 categories) and type (coal, natural gas, petrol, diesel oil for road vehicles (DERV), fuel oil, gas oil, aviation fuel and other); UK level fuel use of nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal aquifers and net imports, 1990 to 2022. This table excludes biofuels and waste.

  • Energy use: generation of heat from renewable sources

    The UK's energy use from renewable sources used to generate heat (active solar heating, heat pumps, geothermal aquifers), 1990 to 2022.

  • Atmospheric emissions: other pollutants by industry and gas

    The emissions of Particulate Matter 10 (PM10), PM2.5, carbon monoxide, non-methane volatile organic compound, benzene and 1,3-butadiene, by industry (SIC 2007 group – around 130 categories), UK, 1990 to 2022 and provisional 2023. 

  • Material flow accounts

    Data on the UK's domestic extraction, imports and exports and flow of materials (biomass, minerals and fossil fuels), 1990 to 2022.

  • Energy use: by industry, source and fuel

    The UK's energy use by industry (SIC 2007 group - around 130 categories), source (for example, industrial and domestic combustion, aircraft, road transport and so on - around 80 categories) and fuel (for example, anthracite, peat, natural gas and so on - around 20 categories), 1990 to 2022.

  • Environmental taxes

    Data on the UK government's revenue from environmental taxes (including energy, transport and pollution or resource taxes), 1997 to 2023 (where available).

  • Atmospheric emissions: greenhouse gases by industry and gas

    The emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydro-fluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulphur hexafluoride, nitrogen trifluoride and total greenhouse gas emissions, by industry (SIC 2007 group – around 130 categories), UK, 1990 to 2022 and provisional 2023.

  • Energy use: fossil fuels by fuel type

    The UK's fuel use by type (coal, natural gas, petrol, diesel oil for road vehicles (DERV), fuel oil, gas oil, aviation fuel and other), 1990 to 2022. This table excludes biofuels and waste.

  • Energy use: total

    The UK's direct use of energy from fossil fuels and other sources (nuclear, net imports, renewables, biofuels and waste and reallocated use of energy by industry (SIC 2007 section - 21 categories), 1990 to 2022.

  • Energy use: by industry reallocated to final consumer and energy intensity

    The UK's reallocated energy use and energy intensity - the level of usage per unit of economic output, by industry (SIC 2007 group - around 130 categories), 1990 to 2022.

  • Atmospheric emissions: greenhouse gas emissions intensity by industry

    Greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions intensity (the level of emissions per unit of economic output), by industry (SIC 2007 group – around 130 categories), UK, 1990 to 2022 and provisional 2023.

Contact details

Name

David Ainslie or Hazel Clarke

Email

environment.accounts@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455847

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest